The Daily Sabs

shamrock and roll!

sabs — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:58:36 -0700

this morning my inbox taunted me with the idea of minty green shamrock shakes, but like the responsible adult that i always am, i decided not to give in to the urge. that is until danny sent out an email saying that there would be a shamrock shake expedition at noon on the dot. now noon is generally too early for lunch (being that i usually eat breakfat around 10am), but i sort of couldn't say no. i mean, it was the holiday thing to do, right?

happy st. pat's! may your day be full of stouty irish beers and shamrock shakes! preferably not together, but do whatever ice cream floats your boat.

nerts don't get hurt, but they do get certified

sabs — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:54:45 -0700

this evening was the final class of our NERT training, and now we are certified. we went over the final exam, and then it was time for hands on training. there were four stations: triage, cribbing, utilities, and then fire. the first one was a reenactment of a devastated area, complete with actor victims and fake blood. it was sort of intense, and i kind of wish we could have done it again. i felt like i learned a lot, and wanted a redo. my favorite part though was actually putting out the fire. i've always thought i could use a fire extinguisher, but now i know i can.

seriously folks, if you're interested in this sort of thing, i highly recommend you sign up for nert training. it's six weeks long, but you end up learning so much info. i'm not going to be 100% ready, but i feel ready. and i'm definitely a lot more educated than i was six weeks ago. now i just hope i never have to actually use my new skills.

bored halfway through

sabs — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:56 -0700

take a good look, see anything a little odd? sometimes i think i'm just going to go to work like this someday. half of my face all cleaned up, the other half all unicorn style. and in case you're not seeing it, here's a closer look.

ps. anyone else still watching 24? i must say even though they ridiculously hyped up tonight's "twist" i definitely did not see it coming.

hold the sun

sabs — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:39:33 -0700

this morning wes, juju, mimi, and jacek came into town to see dave's movie hold the sun. it's his feature length debut, and it was premiering at the asian american film festival. but before the movie, we all met up for brunch at moussy's. i'd never been there before, and while it was cute and had bottomless mimosas for $15, the food wasn't very memorable. it was tasty, but nothing to go out of the way to eat. what was memorable was the awesome artwork wuwu got me and the delicious macarons mimi & jacek brought. happy belated birthday to me!

after brunch, we all drove over to new people (where the film was being screened) and checked out all the kitschy stuff. we also checked out the artwork in the gallery (i especially loved the stuff by sidney pink) and made sure to make a quick stop at the heated toilet seats (no really, they have the fancy loos there). once we were done with the kitsch, chris, who was there working the festival, let us know when it was time to get the best seats.

the movie wasn't your typical story. in fact, i'd argue there wasn't much a story at all, more like vignettes into vaguely connected lives. visually, there were many gorgeous scenes, and the park avenue music/hearts + horses soundtrack just really makes it that much better. here's cute lil' dave, all embarrassed by the attention.

and then here's a photo of randall from today, just because.

sleep. eat. sleep. eat. drink. drink. drink.

sabs — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:27:42 -0800

one of the best things about birthdays on fridays is that you get the entire weekend. i didn't have anything planned for today, but it turned out to be a really nice one. it started off with the leftover oysters (nick brought them last night and stored them properly so that i could shuck them and eat them for breakfast), a few rounds of fat princess, a nap, shopping at my new favorite gift store, and then ended with drinks, dinner, and dessert at molly and kjell's new place. overall a really nice day.

ps. if molly ever invites you to her house for dinner, do yourself a favor, don't eat anything all day long. seriously, i am stuffed. also, make sure you get the view from the roof. friggin' amazing.

duckfaces and chicken trumpeters. oh what a birthday.

sabs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:20:55 -0800

I was sitting there minding my own business, and sort of enjoying the gray lowkey birthday, when all of a sudden i heard this loud horn. At first I thought it was a car from outside, when i realized it was too loud and besides, all the windows were closed. Then I thought that perhaps it was someone who had put their speakers on full blast. Then I realized it wasn't just a series of horn noises, it was actually the opening notes to Just a Gigalo, which as you might know is sort of my jam. So when the noise got closer, and a giant trumpet-playing chicken carrying balloons rounded the corner, i knew it was for me.

I don't embarass easy, but I am pretty sure I turned a nice shade of "have you been drinking wine?" red. Especially when he said it was time to do the chicken dance. I didn't think i was going to do it, but you know, there was a giant chicken, playing the chicken dance song, and a quickly amassed audience intrigued by the ridiculousness, and well, who am I to not oblige?

So I danced a chicken dance, hugged a chicken, received lots of weird gifts (really he had this homeless person mary poppins bag full of things like a rubber chicken, a jordache purse, stickers, plastic eggs, candy necklaces, and so on), and if that wasn't enough, the gals brought me treats too.

You see, the gals here are UNBELIEVEABLE. We've sort of made birthdays a big ta-do around here. And before the chicken arrived, I actually thought we were going to do just a nice lowkey thing with maybe cake at lunch. Which you know, would've been awesome, but they don't settle for just awesome. they go for BONKERS AMAZE. and they succeeded. In addition to the chicken, they also got a huge array of the desserts from the 7x7 must eat list. Now i can cross off 5 more things.

Like i said, these gals are the freaking best.

But, before I knew that there was a chicken, I had originally planned on sharing a little bit of vintage sabs with you. This is me at age 2. It's actually my 2nd birthday party and I'm surrounded by friends, family, a cake with candles, and yet that is the face I chose to make. It's like an immigrant child passport photo. I would like to point out a few things though (1) my head was always huge (2) my hair was always unkempt (3) my posture was always poor and (4) my dresses were even cooler back then.

Birthdays are weird you know, but so far, this one's been fun.

Oh and because i know you're waiting for it. Here's the chicken in action.
I know there were other videos, but this is the one i took while he arrived.

today's special

sabs — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:53:23 -0800

as you might know, i dislike washing my hair. but like all chores you dislike, it has to be done. so this morning, i washed and dried, which i also hate doing. it's not so bad now that my hair is shorter, but when it was long it would take forever, 20+ minutes forever. speaking of minutes. yes it was 8:50 when i dried my hair. i'm not proud of that, but what are you gonna do?

after work i headed down to the castro theatre for the opening of the asian american film festival. tonight they were screening today's special, a film written by Aasif Mandvi (you may know him from oh, perhaps the daily show). the movie was a light-hearted comedy with a bit of romance, a bunch of parental relationship, and a lot of food. i left the restaurant craving indian food like you wouldn't believe. the movie doesn't open until this fall, and while i wouldn't say it's a drop everything and see it, i would say that it was worth seeing. sure there were some plot holes, and sure it was formulaic and predictable, but it was sincere, and heartfelt. plus the background extras are fabulous, if not scenestealers at time. and if you're into food, you're going to want to see it. indian food porn galore.

thanks chris for the movie tickets!!

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Will You Pass the Mustard?

sabs — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:06:55 -0800

Today didn't go exactly as planned. Instead of going to 826 to write about Justin Bieber, I ended up staying at work late. On one hand, it sucked. On the other, it meant I didn't have to spend my evening writing about Justin Bieber. It also meant I got to avoid public transporation thanks to taxi driver randall. He also took a detour to Whole Foods where we perused mustards and bought dinner. oh yes. this is the life?

after nert cooking party

sabs — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:29:05 -0800

this evening, after a pretty great nert class (we got to do some "tabletop" exercises where we act out what would happen in a real life nert staging area), randall and i came home to eat some dinner. we normally plan something quick for nert nights (frozen pizza, sandwiches, etc.) but tonight we decided to make some chinese stirfry. randall took care of the chicken, while i manned the veggies. it was a tasty deliciousness, and a nice way to end the evening. also, it paired perfectly well with a new episode of lost.

A hem-ing and a ha-ing

sabs — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:40:04 -0800

Even though samshrew works less than two blocks away, she and I only
have lunch about once a year. Today the stars aligned and we had our
annual outing. We decided to be frugral and nixed fancy dimsum for
some hi-tea soup and rice. We devoured it all and then we topped it
off with some coffee.

While we were sitting and drinking coffee I noticed my awesome sock
and shoe combo. In case you can't tell it is a green polkadot sock
with a pink and navy plaid shoe. The best part is I hand hemmed my
pants the other day and I made them about 3/4" too short. Luckily I
lazily folded and sewed instead of cut and sewed, so I'll be able to
fix it. But still oops. Now everyone knows of my sock/shoe combo.